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Woman tenant farmer with her grandson. Her husband is dead and she is farming with the help of three near-grown sons near Sallisaw, Oklahoma
A photo of a grandmother and her grandson sitting on a bed.
Cotton pickers, Arkansas
Cotton pickers on the Alexander Plantation at 6:30 a.m., waiting for the workday to start
Farming
Young men deciding what to do with their futures and realizing that farming is a life-long sentence.
Oklahoman, refugee to California from depression, drought, and dust
Rear view of man, standing with another man, at entrance to open-air grocery store(?), Shafter, California.
Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
An analysis of the 1930's Dust Bowl, severe drought, and solutions.
Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma
A photo of an abandoned house in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl time period on the Library of Congress website.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees. San Fernando, California
Photo of Oklahoma refugees packed up in San Fernando, CA
On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl
A description of what the Dust Bowl was and why it was so harmful.